PEACHES. 185 



I first discovered this most curious peach when quite a 

 young tree, on the edge of a swamp near the English Neigh- 

 bourhood, in New-Jersey, in the year 1809. Being struck 

 with its curious appearance, I took scions from it, and 

 budded them in my nursery. I sent some of the young 

 trees to London in the spring of 1812: and in the fall of 

 that year obtained fruit from my Serrated Peach, as I called 

 it, which I thought good. I planted these pits, and the leaves 

 of all the seedlings were similar ; yet many of the trees 

 that bore fruit were inferior sorts, and rejected. One of them 

 had very fine fruit, and superior to the original, which I called 

 "Emperor of Russia," and sent it to Mr. Robert Barclay, 

 in 1819, and to the Hort. Society^ in 1823, by that name. 



67. NEW-YORK WHITE CLINGSTONE. Hort. Soc. Cat. 

 208. 



Williamson's New- York. Ib. 224. 



Newington, Nursery Catalogues. 



Leaves crenated, with round glands. Flowers small, red. 

 Fruit large, round, with a pointed apex, or small nipple. 

 Skin white, inclining to a very light yellow, with a rose co- 

 lour on the exposed side ; some of the fruit having but little 

 colouring. Flesh light yellow, melting and soft, but adhe- 

 ring close to the stone, which is rather oval, and raised in 

 the middle. Juice very plentiful, sweet, luscious, and high 

 flavoured. 



Ripe early in September. 



This most excellent Clingstone Peach, of which there are 

 many seminal varieties, differing more or less in size and 

 quality, but evidently of the same type ; by some has been 

 considered to be a Newington, and confounded with that 

 sort, but is in many respects different, and the true sort 

 much superior. I first found it in the late David Wil- 

 liamson's Nursery in 1807. He had worked many of 

 them, and, by a note I found in his Nursery Book when I 

 came in possession of his Nursery, he had found it in a 

 private garden in the city of New- York. I have found none 

 of the new varieties to equal the original. 



68. WASHINGTON PEACH. Hort. Soc. Cat. 22a. 

 Boyce Peach. 



Leaves crenated, large and broad, with round glands. 

 Flowers small. Fruit large, rather broader than long, full 

 at the bottom, very equally divided by the suture, which is 

 rather deep near the bottom. Skin very thin, and peels rea- 

 dily with the fingers, with a very slight downiness, light yel- 

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